Leonardo Pirondi (Brazil, 1999) is a filmmaker and artist who lives and works between Los Angeles, Porto, and São Paulo. His films create and inhabit alternate worlds that blur the lines between reality and fiction, challenging conventional storytelling structures. Pirondi’s films have screened internationally at festivals such as TIFF, IFFR, and the Viennale.
Leonardo Pirondi
Leonardo Pirondi participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Leonardo Pirondi’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Di Cavalcanti Di Glauber | Glauber Rocha | Brazil | 1977 | 18’ | ||
| Still Life Stilleben | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1997 | 58’ | ||
| A Camel جمل | Ibrahim Shaddad | Sudan | 1981 | 14’ | ||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | France | 1962 | 28’ | ||
| Being John Smith | John Smith | United Kingdom | 2024 | 27’ | ||
| Slow Action | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | 2011 | 45’ | ||
| Hacked Circuit | Deborah Stratman | USA | 2014 | 15’ | ||
| The Age of Stone A Idade da Pedra | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France | 2013 | 29’ | ||
| The Idea of North | Rebecca Baron | USA | 1995 | 14’ | ||
| The Masked Monkeys | Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Germany | 2016 | 30’ | ||